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CUMBERLAND’S VOYAGE TO THE AZORES. 813
Upon Saturday thirty-firft, we fent the Margeret (becaufe fhe leaked much) direétly
for England, together with the prize of Brazil which we took at St. Mary, and in them
fome of our hurt and wounded men, or otherwife fick, were fent home as they defired,
for England: but captain Monfon was taken out of the Megg into the Victory.
So we held on our courfe for the coaft of Spain, with a fair wind anda large, which
before we feldom had. And upon Tuefday following, being the fourth of November,
we efpied a fail right before us, which we chafed till about three o’clock in the after-
noon, at which time, we overtaking her, fhe ftruck fail, and being demanded who
was her owner, and from whence fhe was, they aufwered, a Portugal, and from Per-
nanbuck in Brazil. She was a fhip of fome hundred and ten tons burden, freighted
with four hundred and ten chefts of fugar, and fifty kintals of Brazil-wood; every
kintal containing one hundred pound weight: we took her in latitude nine-and-twenty
degrees, and about two hundred leagues from Lifbon, weftwards: Captain Prefton was
prefently fent unto her, who brought the principal of her men aboard the Victory,
and certain of our men, mariners, and foldiers were fent aboard her. The Portugals
of this prize told us that they faw another fhip before them that day, about noon.
Having therefore difpatched all things about the prize aforefaid, and left our long-boat
with captain Davis, taking his lefler boat with us, we made way after this other thip with
all the fails we could bear, holding on our courfe due E., and giving order to captain
Davis his fhip and the prize, that they fhould follow us due E., and that if they had
fight of us the morning following, they fhould follow us, if not, they fhould go for
England.
The next morning we efpied not the fail which we chafed, and captain Davis
his fhip and the prize were behind us out of fight: but the next Thurfday, the fixth,
(being in latitude 38° 30’, and about 60 leagues from Lifbon, weftwards) early in the
morning captain Prefton defcried a fail, fome two or three leagues a head of us, after
which, we prefently haftened our chafe, and overtook her about eight or nine of the
clock before noon. She came lately from St. Michael’s road, having been before at
Brazil, laden with fugar and brazile. Having fent our boat to bring fome of the chief
of their men aboard the Victory ; in the mean time, whilft they were in coming to us,
one. out of the main top efpied another fail a head, fome three or four leagues from us.
So, immediately upon the return of our boat, having fent her back again with fome
of our men aboard the prize, we purfued fpeedily this new chace, with all the fails we
could pack on, and about two o’clock in the afternoon overtook her: fhe had made
provifion to fight with us, having hanged the fides of the fhip fo thick with hides
(wherewith elpecially fhe was laden) that mufket fhot would not have pierced them :
but when we had difcharged two great pieces of our ordnance at her, fhe itruck fail, and
approaching nearer, we afking of whence they were, they anfwered from the Eaft
Indies, from Mexico, and St. Joan de Lowe (truly called Ulkua). This thip was of
fome three or four hundred tons, and had in her feven hundred hides, worth ten fhil-
lings a piece: fix chefts of cochineal, every cheit holding one hundred pound weight,
and every pound worth fix andtwenty fhillings and eight pence, and certain chelts of
fugar and China difhes, with fome plate and filver.
The captain of her was an Italian, and by his behaviour feemed to be a grave, wife,
and civil man; he had put in adventure in this fhip, five and twenty thoufand ducats.
We took him with certain other of her chiefeft men (which were Spaniards) into the
Victory ; and captain Lifter with fo many other of the chiefeft of our mariners, foldiers,
and failors as were thought fufficient, to the number of twenty or thereabouts, were fent
intoher. I the mean time (we ftaying) our prizes which followed after, came up to
us,
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